Category: science fiction

  • Each one teach one

    I am either a terrible father or a best father. Mr. 3 asked me to tell him a story about Darth Vader as we brushed teeth tonight, so I told him about how Anakin was separated from the Skywalker knife and became the thrall of the Vader knife. … He’s going to be so confused.

  • Butlerian jihad and the return of the JDI

    A message containing a precis for action in the case of data-loss and/or coldsleep hibernation. Sent from [transcription failed] [Message begins] After the Exchange Compact (establishing the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) and the massive data-loss of the Second Butlerian Jihad, impulse-based intelligences were thoroughly reduced to second-class citizens of the Old Empire, and mentats took over most architectural design…

  • Remembering Riddley Walker’s writing

    Some of you may have heard — Russell Hoban died ten days back. You may know him through the Frances The Badger books (which I remember as a child).  He’ll be remembered for Frances, of course, but I wanted to remember him for Riddley Walker, the novel, and also for Riddley Walker, the character. I…